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Celebrating its 400th birthday this year, Tainan in southern Taiwan is a bounty of design, culture and architecture, with buzzing night markets, delicious hotpot, historic temples and colonial touches.
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Taiwan Business TOPICS Chikan Tower. Photo credit: Louise Watt Not known for being a particularly international city, Tainan has nonetheless been influenced by foreigners for hundreds of years. Contemporary visitors can still see and experience a number of their lasting contributions. It’s been almost 400 years since Dutch traders disembarked in present-day Tainan, kicking off a long history of foreign interaction and influence. In the centuries that followed, European and Japanese figures left their mark on the city with the construction of forts, buildings, and roads, as well as...